Özkan Sümer

Turkish footballer (1940–2020)

Özkan Sümer
Personal information
Full name	Özkan Sümer
Date of birth	(1940-11-20)20 November 1940
Place of birth	Trabzon, Turkey
Date of death	22 December 2020(2020-12-22) (aged 80)
Place of death	Trabzon, Turkey
Position(s)	Defender
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
	Trabzonspor
	Karabükspor
	Sebat Gençlik
1967–1970	Trabzonspor
Managerial career
1978–1981	Trabzonspor
1981	Turkey
1982–1983	Galatasaray SK
1984–1985	Trabzonspor
1990–1991	Trabzonspor
1998	Trabzonspor
2000–2001	Mobellaspor
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Özkan Sümer (20 November 1940 – 22 December 2020) was a Turkish footballer and coach. He played as defender in Trabzonspor (and later coached the same club), Galatasaray SK, and the Turkey national football team. He also served as president of Trabzonspor.

Career

Footballer

Sümer was born in Trabzon and started to play football in his home town's club of Trabzonspor. After some time at Karabükspor and Sebat Gençlik, Sümer re-joined Trabzonspor. He was a successful defender of his team. During this time, he earned the nickname "Deve" (literally: "Camel") due to his tallness and stubborn rough playing temperament.

Manager

After having ended his active sports life, Sümer served as an instructor for a while at the Turkish Football Federation (TFF). He coached later the youth and amateur squads of Trabzonspor before he was appointed manager of the main team in 1978.

Trabzonspor became league champion with Sümer as manager in the seasons 1978–79 and 1980–81. In 1981, he was appointed manager of the Turkey national football team. The national team played two matches under his managership losing both. He then transferred to coach Galatasaray SK in the 1982–83 season. Sümer was manager again at Trabzonspor in the seasons 1984–85, 1990–91 and 1996. In the season 2000–01, he coached Mobellaspor, a Second League club in Konya.^[1]

Club president

In 2001, Sümer was elected president of Trabzonspor succeeding Mehmet Ali Yılmaz.^[2] He resigned from this post on 5 September 2003 in protest against a resolution made by the Ombudsman Board of the TFF that lifted a ban against Fenerbahçe SK concluded before.^[3]

Coordinator

From 22 July 2006 Sümer served as the regional coordinator for education at Trabzonspor.^[4]

In 2007, he co-founded the women's football branch of Trabzonspor along with Zeliha Şimşek, a former KTÜ women's club footballer only six weeks before the beginning of the football season. The team was invited to join the Turkish Women's Football Premier League in its first season of 2007–08. Trabzonspor women became league champion already the next season.^[5]

Honors

As manager

Trabzonspor^[6]
- Turkish Super League
  - champion 1978–79, 1980–81
- President's Cup
  - winner 1978–79
- Prime Minister's Cup
  - winner 1984–85 with İlyas Akçay

Galatasaray
- Türkiye Kupası: 1981–82

As club president

Trabzonspor^[7]
- Turkish Cup
  - winner 2002–03

References

^ "Teknik Direktör" (in Turkish). TFF. Retrieved 2009-09-21.
^ "Trabzonspor'un yeni başkanı Sümer" (in Turkish). Ntvmsnbc.com. 2000-12-31. Retrieved 2010-09-26.
^ "Özkan Sümer isyanı" (in Turkish). Radikal.com.tr. 2003-09-06. Retrieved 2010-09-26.
^ "Trabzon'da Özkan Sümer'e yeni görev" (in Turkish). Tüm Gazeteler. Retrieved 2009-09-21.
^ "Zeliha Şimşek'in futbol aşkı!" (in Turkish). Ajans Spor. 2008-12-03. Retrieved 2009-09-06.
^ "Başarı Tablosu" (in Turkish). Trabzonspor.mobi. Retrieved 2009-09-22.
^ "Başarı Tablosu" (in Turkish). Trabzonspor.mobi. Retrieved 2009-09-22.